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I think you are discrediting LLMs, gemini 2.5 pro catches most of the flaws in the author's article. I think the author just doesn't understand floating point.

to properly plumb the LLM here you should also freshly ask it “Tell me what is right with this:”

I prompted them without anything except the content and they autonomously decide it’s either all nonsense or they take the bait and start praising it.

How do you know if Gemini caught the flaws you didn't notice?

possibly so. I’m even seeing GPT 4.1-mini ripping it apart when prompted with only the content. DeepSeek (not with thinking) is fooled.

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